Famous Squabbling Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Squabbling poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous squabbling poems. These examples illustrate what a famous squabbling poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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Conversation with Comrade Lenin

...bleeding
muck
 and rubbish
 around us still.

Without you,
 there’s many
 have got out of hand,

all the sparring
 and squabbling
 does one in.
There’s scum
 in plenty
 hounding our land,

outside the borders
 and also
 within.

Try to
 count ’em
 and
 tab ’em - 
 it’s no go,

there’s all kinds,
 and they’re
 thick as nettles:
kulaks,
 red tapists,
 and,
 down the row,
drunkards,
 sectarians,
 lickspittles.
They strut around
 proudly
 as peacocks,
badges and fountain pens
 s...Read more of this...
by Mayakovsky, Vladimir


Market days

...ating sheep, with horses and cows,
the air full of dung-stench and neighing,
hen squalls, non-stop bawling,
the farmers squabbling...

And mother, mindful of salt she needed to get,
as well as knitting needles, rushed right off;
and we'd be looking on to help our sister pick her thread,
dizzy from this endless spread of bright burning colors in front of us,
till mother pulled us back from the booths,

had us go past wagonloads of fruit and grain
to skirt the crowding square,
...Read more of this...
by Mekas, Jonas

The Magpie Evening: A Prayer

...ff in east Ohio
Until each of them, oldest to youngest, has passed.
Let their thirty-seven children scatter into
The squabbling of the everyday, and let them break
This creeping chain of cars into the fanning out
Toward anger and selfishness and the need to eat
At any of the thousand tables they will pass.
Let them wait.  Let them correctly choose the right turn 
Or the left, this entrance ramp, that exit, the last 
Confusing fork before the familiar driveway 
Three...Read more of this...
by Fincke, Gary

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